Re: problems building feature release on windows

[Larry Jones]

Kelly F. Hickel writes:
> 
>  [Kelly F. Hickel] I also expected it to be IO bound, which is why we
> have several fast drives in a RAID 5 array. I have tried moving temp and
> lock to ramdrives (independently and together).  All tests as well as
> measurements indicate that it is CPU bound.

Any chance you don't have DMA mode enabled for the drives?  Using PIO
mode instead of DMA will eat up CPU time like crazy.

-Larry Jones

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